Drinking Fountain Outside Entrance Gates to Dulwich Old College is a Grade II listed building in the Southwark local planning authority area, England. Drinking fountain.

Drinking Fountain Outside Entrance Gates to Dulwich Old College

WRENN ID
western-crypt-ivy
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Southwark
Constituency
Dulwich and West Norwood MP: Helen Hayes (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Drinking fountain
Address
Drinking Fountain Outside Entrance Gates to Dulwich Old College, Dulwich Village
OS grid reference
TQ 331 738
Coordinates
51.44756, -0.08562
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The drinking fountain located outside the entrance gates to Dulwich Old College is a 19th-century structure. It features a polished red granite quadrangular center block that supports a cast-iron lamp standard. Each face of the fountain has a semicircular basin underneath. At the corners, scrolled brackets connect the basins to ground-floor troughs below.

Local climate

Drinking Fountain Outside Entrance Gates to Dulwich Old College sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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